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Terrorist component of foreign policy of Azerbaijan
International Organization for combating financial abuse (FATF) has included Azerbaijan in the short list of financing of terrorism (CFT) and dealing with money laundering of criminal origin (CAP). From the post-Soviet states in this list, except for Azerbaijan, appears more and Ukraine. Although open to the press report of FATF are not given information on which Azerbaijan and Ukraine are included in the list of laundering criminal proceeds and terrorism sponsoring states, special secrets in this matter. Thus, only the sale of weapons to Azerbaijan Ukrainian officials in Kiev and Baku managed to "earn" tens, if not more, millions of dollars. Received wide publicity and some of the "operation" of Ukraine on supply of weapons to terrorist organizations in the world.
Interestingly, Ukraine and Azerbaijan have conducted "covert military and financial transactions" not only among themselves but also, and already jointly with other states. So, after the disaster in the skies over China in 2005, Ukrainian IL-76, it became clear that, together with the Ukrainian crew of the plane was and Azerbaijani military pilot. At that time, the Azerbaijani Defense Minister Abiyev desperately trying to distance themselves from this story and claimed that he did not know about the ownership of the Azerbaijani military officer to the illegal flow of arms to terrorists from the Ukraine.
The most recent of which became publicly available examples of Ukrainian-Azerbaijani "cooperation" with the terrorist organizations was arrested in Thailand plane with several tons of weapons and ammunition. The investigation revealed that the airplane, confusing traces of the crime, flew from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, then to North Korea and from there to Thailand.
It should be noted that the reports FATF, connecting 35 major financial intelligence world, the world's financial community is not in question, and strongly affect their relations with states, greshaschimi criminal activity. In particular, getting into these reports primarily affect investment inflows into the state. For Azerbaijan, the problem is exacerbated by a U.S. court and proven cases of bribery on the part of the current and previous president. Not added confidence Ilham Aliyev and the massive acquisition for their children's fashionable mansions in the prestigious area of Dubai for a total of 75 million dollars. At the same time the world press did not fail to mention that the salary of the President of Azerbaijan is "only" only 228 thousand dollars a year.
Bribery and money laundering from illegal activities although they are evil and criminal acts, yet the world is much more concerned about Azerbaijan's relations with terrorist organizations. It should be noted that if a certain time, Azerbaijan was assisted by the terrorists and financed these organizations in recent years has transformed itself into a supplier, and even an organizer and exporter of Azerbaijan proper terrorist organizations. It is not funded by Azerbaijan organizations like the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which, under certain conditions, could be considered a rebel detachments of the national liberation movement. In the world terrorist community, the role of Azerbaijan is much greater.
The basis of the interaction of the Azerbaijan Republic with the terrorist organizations have put Heydar Aliyev, now declared a "national leader" of this republic. When Heydar Aliyev, for example, to participate in the aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic of Afghanistan in Azerbaijan were "invited" more than 3200 of the Afghan mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a terrorist organization, Hizb-i-Islami. This is the same G. Hekmatyar, in early 2007, told reporters Pakistani television in 2001, his fighters rescued by U.S. troops turn over Osama bin Laden and his top aides, Ayman al-Zawahri.
Over time, the official Baku connection with the global terrorist movement only strengthened. In Azerbaijan's aggression against NKR recruited bloody experience of Shamil Basayev and Khattab, Doku Umarov, and Salman Raduyev and many others who later acquired fame loud ruthless killers. By late 1993, Azerbaijan has become a de-facto "hideout" for Islamic terrorists around the world, as well as a transit point for the delivery of financial resources, weapons and fighters into "independent Ichkeria", of which the legally functioning in Baku.
We can not say that the world did not know about the sinister role of Azerbaijan in the formation and strengthening of the Islamic terrorist movement. And while oil and gas riches of Azerbaijan became the reason for the condescending attitude of the international community to the individual "грешкам" of this state, yet from time to time some countries have reacted harshly to the organization of the Azerbaijani authorities haven for terrorist organizations. So, in October 2002, the British Foreign Office officially ranked Azerbaijan to the States in which the active terrorist organizations that threaten the safety and lives of foreigners. Official London advised its citizens not to travel to Azerbaijan, as well as the threat of terrorist attacks on foreigners there is very high. " Although DHS Azerbaijan made then a rebuttal and stated that the republic "calm prevails and the world", the facts say otherwise.
Azerbaijan was included in the list published by Washington State under which the cells of al-Qaeda. For several years the Committee on Safety of the State Duma of Russia pointed out (and points) to Azerbaijan as a state with close ties to the Chechen and Afghan terrorist structures. By unreliable States where there are centers for training international terrorists, tagging Azerbaijan and Canada. Interestingly, Ottawa had recommended its consular offices in the issuance of visas to enter the country to pay special attention to the citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic, as well as "those who have even once been there."
Lists of supporters of terrorist organizations were published after the September 11 tragedy. But even before that, the U.S. (not Azeri!) Secret service arrested in Baku military operations division chief of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, Ahmed Salama Mabrouk, who is accused of involvement in the terrorist attack in Nairobi. After a couple of months the CIA had tracked down and captured in Azerbaijan, two other activists of this group - Hafisa Mabrouk and Yasser al-Sirri.
By the way, took place simultaneously on Aug. 7, 1998 bloody bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, during which were blown up American embassies, are directly related to entrenched in Azerbaijan, the terrorist organization Dzheyshullah "included in the U.S. State Department list of 39 most dangerous extremist groups world. "Dzheyshullah" ( "Army of God") is in close contact with terrorist groups in other countries of the world, and serves as a branch of Al Qaeda in Azerbaijan.
It is well known that before the terrorist attacks against U.S. embassies in the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania, the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden has called over 60 times in Azerbaijan. But few people know that a fax containing the order to bomb the U.S. embassy in Kenya was sent from Azerbaijan. Interestingly, the day before the tragic events in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, U.S. Congressional Research Service released a special document on the activities of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in Azerbaijan.
In Azerbaijan, and today operate numerous extremist terrorist organizations, many of whom - Hizb ut-Tahrir, Ihaviul-muslimin, Islamic Jihad, Dzheyhullah "," Goutbi "- are closely linked and coordinated their actions with identical orientation of organizations in other States. Besides them in Azerbaijan there are terrorist groups, regional significance: "Forest Brothers", "Nurchilar", "Caucasus Emirate" ... Those interested in the topic can be found here with the site of one of Azerbaijan's terrorist organizations.
Thus, we can state that the list of FATF, bearing the information and advisory, at the same time reflect the real situation in Azerbaijan. And if in the cases with the inclusion in the list of unreliable countries "axis of evil": Iran, Syria, North Korea - can be suspected politically motivated, then Baku such clauses simply can not be. Azerbaijan is increasingly bogged down in a quagmire of corruption and patronage of universal international terrorism, and the head of this phenomenon traditionally inherited are the first persons of the republic.
February 26 this year, three weeks before the publication of the report of FATF countries involved in money laundering and "lack of fight" terrorist organizations in the Dagestani newspaper Novoe Delo published an article by Mark Shahbanova and Magomed Abdurashidova: Southern Dagestan. The article contains a memorable phrase: "At the moment the most influential player in the southern Dagestan is actually the president of neighboring Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev." The authors, however, quite objectively telling the intervention of a presidential republic into ethnic, economic and political life of southern Dagestan, abstained from the analysis of the sources of political opportunities Aliyev to Russia, confined to stating the fact of presence of a large array of ethnic Azerbaijanis in southern Dagestan. Meanwhile, the influence of Ilham Aliyev in neighboring Dagestan is based not only and not so much a factor supported by the presence of the Azerbaijani diaspora, many in the first place, the Republic of Azerbaijan controlled by terrorist organizations. In a constantly shaken by bloody attacks Dagestan, where many are forced to live in fear for their loved ones, and political preferences are clan-ethnic character, terrorist factor is becoming increasingly important.
Levon Melik-SHAHNAZARIAN
Terrorist component of foreign policy of Azerbaijan
International Organization for combating financial abuse (FATF) has included Azerbaijan in the short list of financing of terrorism (CFT) and dealing with money laundering of criminal origin (CAP). From the post-Soviet states in this list, except for Azerbaijan, appears more and Ukraine. Although open to the press report of FATF are not given information on which Azerbaijan and Ukraine are included in the list of laundering criminal proceeds and terrorism sponsoring states, special secrets in this matter. Thus, only the sale of weapons to Azerbaijan Ukrainian officials in Kiev and Baku managed to "earn" tens, if not more, millions of dollars. Received wide publicity and some of the "operation" of Ukraine on supply of weapons to terrorist organizations in the world.
Interestingly, Ukraine and Azerbaijan have conducted "covert military and financial transactions" not only among themselves but also, and already jointly with other states. So, after the disaster in the skies over China in 2005, Ukrainian IL-76, it became clear that, together with the Ukrainian crew of the plane was and Azerbaijani military pilot. At that time, the Azerbaijani Defense Minister Abiyev desperately trying to distance themselves from this story and claimed that he did not know about the ownership of the Azerbaijani military officer to the illegal flow of arms to terrorists from the Ukraine.
The most recent of which became publicly available examples of Ukrainian-Azerbaijani "cooperation" with the terrorist organizations was arrested in Thailand plane with several tons of weapons and ammunition. The investigation revealed that the airplane, confusing traces of the crime, flew from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, then to North Korea and from there to Thailand.
It should be noted that the reports FATF, connecting 35 major financial intelligence world, the world's financial community is not in question, and strongly affect their relations with states, greshaschimi criminal activity. In particular, getting into these reports primarily affect investment inflows into the state. For Azerbaijan, the problem is exacerbated by a U.S. court and proven cases of bribery on the part of the current and previous president. Not added confidence Ilham Aliyev and the massive acquisition for their children's fashionable mansions in the prestigious area of Dubai for a total of 75 million dollars. At the same time the world press did not fail to mention that the salary of the President of Azerbaijan is "only" only 228 thousand dollars a year.
Bribery and money laundering from illegal activities although they are evil and criminal acts, yet the world is much more concerned about Azerbaijan's relations with terrorist organizations. It should be noted that if a certain time, Azerbaijan was assisted by the terrorists and financed these organizations in recent years has transformed itself into a supplier, and even an organizer and exporter of Azerbaijan proper terrorist organizations. It is not funded by Azerbaijan organizations like the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which, under certain conditions, could be considered a rebel detachments of the national liberation movement. In the world terrorist community, the role of Azerbaijan is much greater.
The basis of the interaction of the Azerbaijan Republic with the terrorist organizations have put Heydar Aliyev, now declared a "national leader" of this republic. When Heydar Aliyev, for example, to participate in the aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic of Afghanistan in Azerbaijan were "invited" more than 3200 of the Afghan mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a terrorist organization, Hizb-i-Islami. This is the same G. Hekmatyar, in early 2007, told reporters Pakistani television in 2001, his fighters rescued by U.S. troops turn over Osama bin Laden and his top aides, Ayman al-Zawahri.
Over time, the official Baku connection with the global terrorist movement only strengthened. In Azerbaijan's aggression against NKR recruited bloody experience of Shamil Basayev and Khattab, Doku Umarov, and Salman Raduyev and many others who later acquired fame loud ruthless killers. By late 1993, Azerbaijan has become a de-facto "hideout" for Islamic terrorists around the world, as well as a transit point for the delivery of financial resources, weapons and fighters into "independent Ichkeria", of which the legally functioning in Baku.
We can not say that the world did not know about the sinister role of Azerbaijan in the formation and strengthening of the Islamic terrorist movement. And while oil and gas riches of Azerbaijan became the reason for the condescending attitude of the international community to the individual "грешкам" of this state, yet from time to time some countries have reacted harshly to the organization of the Azerbaijani authorities haven for terrorist organizations. So, in October 2002, the British Foreign Office officially ranked Azerbaijan to the States in which the active terrorist organizations that threaten the safety and lives of foreigners. Official London advised its citizens not to travel to Azerbaijan, as well as the threat of terrorist attacks on foreigners there is very high. " Although DHS Azerbaijan made then a rebuttal and stated that the republic "calm prevails and the world", the facts say otherwise.
Azerbaijan was included in the list published by Washington State under which the cells of al-Qaeda. For several years the Committee on Safety of the State Duma of Russia pointed out (and points) to Azerbaijan as a state with close ties to the Chechen and Afghan terrorist structures. By unreliable States where there are centers for training international terrorists, tagging Azerbaijan and Canada. Interestingly, Ottawa had recommended its consular offices in the issuance of visas to enter the country to pay special attention to the citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic, as well as "those who have even once been there."
Lists of supporters of terrorist organizations were published after the September 11 tragedy. But even before that, the U.S. (not Azeri!) Secret service arrested in Baku military operations division chief of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, Ahmed Salama Mabrouk, who is accused of involvement in the terrorist attack in Nairobi. After a couple of months the CIA had tracked down and captured in Azerbaijan, two other activists of this group - Hafisa Mabrouk and Yasser al-Sirri.
By the way, took place simultaneously on Aug. 7, 1998 bloody bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, during which were blown up American embassies, are directly related to entrenched in Azerbaijan, the terrorist organization Dzheyshullah "included in the U.S. State Department list of 39 most dangerous extremist groups world. "Dzheyshullah" ( "Army of God") is in close contact with terrorist groups in other countries of the world, and serves as a branch of Al Qaeda in Azerbaijan.
It is well known that before the terrorist attacks against U.S. embassies in the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania, the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden has called over 60 times in Azerbaijan. But few people know that a fax containing the order to bomb the U.S. embassy in Kenya was sent from Azerbaijan. Interestingly, the day before the tragic events in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, U.S. Congressional Research Service released a special document on the activities of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in Azerbaijan.
In Azerbaijan, and today operate numerous extremist terrorist organizations, many of whom - Hizb ut-Tahrir, Ihaviul-muslimin, Islamic Jihad, Dzheyhullah "," Goutbi "- are closely linked and coordinated their actions with identical orientation of organizations in other States. Besides them in Azerbaijan there are terrorist groups, regional significance: "Forest Brothers", "Nurchilar", "Caucasus Emirate" ... Those interested in the topic can be found here with the site of one of Azerbaijan's terrorist organizations.
Thus, we can state that the list of FATF, bearing the information and advisory, at the same time reflect the real situation in Azerbaijan. And if in the cases with the inclusion in the list of unreliable countries "axis of evil": Iran, Syria, North Korea - can be suspected politically motivated, then Baku such clauses simply can not be. Azerbaijan is increasingly bogged down in a quagmire of corruption and patronage of universal international terrorism, and the head of this phenomenon traditionally inherited are the first persons of the republic.
February 26 this year, three weeks before the publication of the report of FATF countries involved in money laundering and "lack of fight" terrorist organizations in the Dagestani newspaper Novoe Delo published an article by Mark Shahbanova and Magomed Abdurashidova: Southern Dagestan. The article contains a memorable phrase: "At the moment the most influential player in the southern Dagestan is actually the president of neighboring Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev." The authors, however, quite objectively telling the intervention of a presidential republic into ethnic, economic and political life of southern Dagestan, abstained from the analysis of the sources of political opportunities Aliyev to Russia, confined to stating the fact of presence of a large array of ethnic Azerbaijanis in southern Dagestan. Meanwhile, the influence of Ilham Aliyev in neighboring Dagestan is based not only and not so much a factor supported by the presence of the Azerbaijani diaspora, many in the first place, the Republic of Azerbaijan controlled by terrorist organizations. In a constantly shaken by bloody attacks Dagestan, where many are forced to live in fear for their loved ones, and political preferences are clan-ethnic character, terrorist factor is becoming increasingly important.
Levon Melik-SHAHNAZARIAN
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